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The Thrilling History of Amusement Park Beers

Imbibe Magazine

I shouted as the descent accelerated, the ocean’s foamy white peaks reminding me of my looming refreshment at the ride’s end: a few IPAs at Draft, Belmont Park’s boardwalk restaurant serving standout beers from San Diego breweries such as North Park and Pure Project. Here we go!” Belmont Park oceanside amusement park in San Diego.

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Why Craft Brewers Are Migrating From Cities to Suburbs

Imbibe Magazine

Fast-forward to today, and craft beer fans that spent their 20s and 30s drinking hazy IPAs in downtown taprooms, driving the industrys explosive growth, are older and grayer. Since Bonesaw Brewing opened in 2018 in Glassboro, New Jersey, a southern suburb of Philadelphia, the brewery has twice expanded its parking lot.

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The Evolution of the IPA, from 19th Century England to Now

VinePair

And though people love to loathe them, IPAs are the current bread and butter of the American craft brewing industry. Part of the style’s success are its numerous substyles, which have allowed IPAs to straddle nearly every major beer category on the market. There’s very little that the IPA hasn’t been able to achieve.

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Brut Busts and Brett Who? The Next Big IPA Sub-Styles That Never Were

VinePair

In January, brewery president and cofounder Dave Thibodeau hit the slopes with a Ska snowboard that outlived its advertised beer: Moral Panic, a bone-dry brut IPA that debuted in 2018 and disappeared in late 2021. A fizzy, fragrant, Champagne-inspired IPA couldn’t hack it in a world gone hazy.

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Taplines: How Cold IPA Got Hot

VinePair

In 2018, Gold Dot Beer’s Kevin Davey was working as the brewmaster of Portland, Ore.’s Hazy IPAs had yet to step into their role as the dominant substyle of the traditional West Coast variety, and this was the age of tinkering. Today, we’re going to talk about one of those times. Tune in for more.

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Niche Sports and Games Are Helping Breweries Score Big

Imbibe Magazine

Customers wear brewery merch and congregate in taprooms, bantering about smash-hit IPAs and others that swung for the fences but fell short. In 2018, former Marine Sergio Manancero, the son of Uruguayan immigrants, opened La Doña Cervecería in Minneapolis, with a three-on-three soccer field installed outside.

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We Asked 22 Brewers: What’s the Best New Beer of 2023?

VinePair

In a year when some breweries closed and others bought golf courses , when hazy IPAs matured and New Jersey‘s governor did exactly the opposite, a cornucopia of new beers came out (and promptly got checked in). Decoction mashing and most importantly the use of the floatation tank help to create a clean and refreshingly unique IPA.

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